Welcome to the Lounge

RugbyLeague17-Jun-14 0:57

RugbyLeague

17-Jun-14 0:57

That makes me cross

Kenneth Haugland17-Jun-14 1:08

17-Jun-14 1:08

I'm getting the sense that you are diasporeing on me?

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer17-Jun-14 3:25

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

17-Jun-14 3:25

My trunk is full already.

Osofem Inc

Kenneth Haugland17-Jun-14 0:51

Up to my neck in legacy code / pile of manure

17-Jun-14 0:51

Have the charges been potted?

Manfred Rudolf Bihy16-Jun-14 22:42

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

16-Jun-14 22:42

<RANT mode="ON"/>
The customer changed something in their SAP system a while ago and low and behold something in our code base that communicates with said SAP system stopped working. There are 5 logfiles none of which contain any useful information. I'm the poor sod who now has figure out what exactly broke, why this crap no longer works and fix it, say, until yesterday.

The problem is the culprit that manufactured this pile of manure is no longer with us and can thus not be properly punished.

Dare I mention the absence of documentation?

Nah, I'd better not!
Sometimes I really hate my job.
<RANT mode="OFF"/>

On the lighter side: tomorrow is the last day before a week and a half of vacation.

I shall now return to cursing at this code mess and whining and moaning about it.

Cheers!

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

glennPattonWork316-Jun-14 22:50

glennPattonWork3

16-Jun-14 22:50

Been there! Done That!! Feel for you!!! have fun on the Hols Smile | :)

Manfred Rudolf Bihy17-Jun-14 0:05

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

17-Jun-14 0:05

Thanks! I can't wait to get away from this @!§#??.

Cheers!

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

JimmyRopes17-Jun-14 0:04

JimmyRopes

17-Jun-14 0:04

Manfred R. Bihy wrote:
The problem is the culprit that manufactured this pile of manure is no longer with us and can thus not be properly punished.

Never forget the last out first blamed principal. Blame him and go on vacation.

With any luck someone will have figured out and fixed the problem before you return. Big Grin | :-D

Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.

I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.

The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs

I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes

Abu Mami17-Jun-14 0:20

Abu Mami

17-Jun-14 0:20

At least you're better off than me - I'm writing my own pile of manure.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy17-Jun-14 0:26

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

17-Jun-14 0:26

I'd gladly be producing my own sh*t, alas I'm stuck with sorting out someone else's.

Cheers!

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

RugbyLeague17-Jun-14 0:21

RugbyLeague

17-Jun-14 0:21

Same here - I have to replace a load of spaghetti built around hard coded server references - I am struggling to make head or tail of it.

The idiot who write it originally is still with us and is no help at all trying to figure out what it is meant to be doing and why. His excuse is he had to write several applications to support the sales/production roles for a startup all in double quick time and this particular nest of spaghetti is the result of requirements changing every day or so as management kept changing their minds. Most of the rest of this code base is pretty good as it has been re-engineered over time when things became more leisurely but the original dev says he didn't want to touch this particular mess as it worked but was indecipherable. But now it needs changing and it has fallen to me to fix it Frown | :(

By the way, the original dev is me too Smile | :)

Rage17-Jun-14 1:11

Rage

17-Jun-14 1:11

RugbyLeague wrote:
By the way, the original dev is me too

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Tim Carmichael17-Jun-14 2:32

Tim Carmichael

17-Jun-14 2:32

And, upon completion, will the documentation be current, correct, and of use to future generations?

Dan Neely17-Jun-14 2:43

Dan Neely

17-Jun-14 2:43

Manfred R. Bihy wrote:
The customer changed something in their SAP

Everything after this point was redundant. Dead | X|

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

S Douglas17-Jun-14 7:56

S Douglas

17-Jun-14 7:56

Manfred R. Bihy wrote:
SAP

Found your issue...data coming out of SAP is Dead | X|

Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.

Somebody please tell me.

User 5924116-Jun-14 22:35

16-Jun-14 22:35

I have been wrestling with the article submission wizard for some days in an attempt to post my debut article.
Mostly its going OK albeit slowly but I am having real difficulty with code snippets. I just want to copy some C# code from VS2010 and paste it into the article. I want to keep the formatting (indentation). I cannot seem to work this out.
It seems I need to copy the code - paste it as text - manually do all the formatting and then surround it with the language formatting tags using the wizard.
I have searched the site to no avail so could somebody either point me to the appropriate link or give me a few tips on how to do this.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

Kenneth Haugland16-Jun-14 22:38

16-Jun-14 22:38

Switch to HTML view and insert the pre tags manually and then insert the copied code.
Edit:
When you have done all that you can now switch out of HTML mode.

modified 17-Jun-14 4:46am.

User 5924116-Jun-14 22:47

16-Jun-14 22:47

Many thanks. It works perfectly.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

Kenneth Haugland16-Jun-14 22:52

16-Jun-14 22:52

Yes I found that out the hard way Sigh | :sigh:

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter16-Jun-14 22:48

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

16-Jun-14 22:48

Copy in the code. Select the new block then press the 'clean formatting' button (looks like a flag). Select 'formatted' from the format drop-down. Select the language from the language drop-down...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

User 5924116-Jun-14 22:59

16-Jun-14 22:59

Thanks. In the current wizard the flag icon is Anchor. The way you suggest is how I would have thought it should work but for some reason not for me. I have it solved now using the HTML view.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter16-Jun-14 23:04

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

16-Jun-14 23:04

My wrong - next to the flag. Looks like this: T_x

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

User 5924116-Jun-14 23:08

16-Jun-14 23:08

Yes I have actually used that method. There may be a bug. As I have a way forward I will look into this later.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

Kenneth Haugland16-Jun-14 23:28

16-Jun-14 23:28

Well, I had problems before with this function. It seem to divide the code blocks with white lines inside the coherent code block. This made me sware quite often so I did the HTML variant.